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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Sadly, while the Mormons were cool with our print, the Moomins were not so cheerful and they have asked us to stop making them. Not the way round I would have expected that to go.

My interview with Axis where I talked about the Moomin v Mormon situation has amazingly been picked as one of their 21 highlights for their Twenty First birthday. Congratulations and thank you to all at team Axis.

Sunday, November 04, 2012

Strange day in the Westend of Glasgow today which ended with a long discussion about religion and evolution spurned on by someone taking offence at the book from our Himptology exhibition. Turned out the guy doesn't believe in Evolution and wanted to discuss. I was quite brain fried after having manned a stall at the art market for 6 hours and despite knowing better launched into it. Eventually I realised that it was probably rather futile on both our behalves but he has taken my card to get in touch so a long debate may now be begun!! Anyone wishing to join in is welcome.

EDIT: Just tweeted the above to Science and Comedy man Robin Ince who provided some useful links and suggestions for passing to my debater if he does get in touch. Robin's best piece of advise though was probably the most true"these arguments are a waste of time" which I know from making our Godwin's Law projection pieceand yet I fear both sides always get drawn in.

In saying that I'm still going to get myself a copy of Peter Atkin's "Creation Revisited" and also Steve Jones "Almost like a Whale". Isn't Twitter great, knowledgeable people to point you in the right directions for further reading.

About

Allistair Burt practices under the title of “Hole in my Pocket”. His work is a dynamic mix of art/ architecture and includes such multi-disciplinary antics as film, painting, sculpture, design, architecture, illustration and travelling around Scotland with an air hostess trolley.

In recent times he has directed some short films for Channel 4, written some mini books, participated in various art exhibitions, created the Small World Experiment, designed a Storytelling Machine, tried to sort out the MP's expense fiasco through a creative solution and formed their own religion.